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H. R. ROBBINS.

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Patented May 25, 1869.

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HENRY R. ROBBINS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR HIMSELF AND J. J. MORAN, OF SAME PLACE.

Lam Patent No. 90,583, dated May 25, 1869.

COOKING-RANGE The Schedule referred to'in these Letters Patent and making part: of the same.

` To all whom it may concern ber with the ovens and fire-space of a cooking-range .or stove, that the heat generated in the iirefspaee shall not only serve for the cooking of food, but also for the warming of air during its passage to other apartments in the house.

The invention also consists in making the central partpof the front wall of the range with a swell, or bulge outward, whereby I gain an increase of surface in the swelled part itsel`,'which I use for the heating of at-irons, and also an increase of space in the oven, in rear ofthe said bulge.

In thediawings- A is a cooking-range, divided into three transverse spaces, a a a. K

The central space, a', is further divided by a transverse partition into two chambers, l) and b', whereof the outer chamber, b, is open at the top, and intended for cooking or warming-purposes, and the rear chamber, b', is closed at the top, and contains a central re-pot, b, the remaining portions constituting a heating-space, into -which cold air is admitted from the rear oi' the range, which, having been duly freighted with caloric during its passage through the heating-space, is couducted away, by means of pipes,-to other apartments. My range is thus made to serve not only for cooking,

' but also for heating-purposes.

The front wall, c, of the -central space b, I canse to be curved outward, as shown, and made with an inner and outer wail, leaving a narrow curved chamber, M, between the'two walls, closed at the top by means of covers, into which I insert dat-irons, veltical slots, u il,

being made in the outer wall to receive the handles of the fiat-irons, as` shown in g. l.

It is clear, that by making this at-ron-heat-ing space of the concave form, I gain room for the insertion of one or more additional irons also, that I enlarge the'area of the space b, and by such enlargement augment the capacity4 and increase the value of my apparatus; also, by this bulge, I gain one additional openn g, for culinary purposes.

Having thus describedmy invention,

What I claim `as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The vertical chamber M, when formed around the bulging front wall of a range or stove, as shown and described, and provided with the vertical slots u u,

and with covers, substantially as and for the purposes specified. v 4

2. The arrangement, iu a stove or range, of the four chambers av a" b b', the chamber b containing a large grate, adapted for common use for cooking, Snc., and the chamber b', containing a small grate, b", at its centre, and holes through its rear wall, by means of which cold air may be admitted, all constructed to operate as and for the purposes set forth.

Witnesses: HENRY R. ROBBINS.

Unas. A. PETTIT, A. M. TANNER. 

